Recently, the Guangdong Provincial CPPCC Science and Education Committee and the Provincial Intellectual Property Office's Strategic Emerging Industry Foreign-related Intellectual Property Coping Strategies Joint Research Group learned that the Guangdong LED lighting standard optical component program has achieved initial results, but still faces some The problem is to support the plan as an important part of the cooperation between the province and the Ministry. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the provincial government jointly take the lead.
The upstream core technology is subject to the human LED lighting industry is one of the strategic emerging industries in Guangdong Province. After several years of hard work, it has become a new bright spot in Guangdong's economic growth. In 2012, the province achieved an output value of 217 billion yuan, ranking first in the country in terms of industrial scale. Production accounts for about 70% of the country and 50. It is foreseeable that the LED industry, as a strategic emerging industry, will play an increasingly prominent role in the process of achieving three positioning and two leading goals in Guangdong.
The research team found that the development of LED industry in Guangdong is facing severe challenges. Although the scale of the industry is large, the key technologies, especially the upstream key core technologies, are subject to people's problems. Internationally, LED industry giants OSRAM, Philips, Panasonic and Toshiba have established a cooperative organization (Zhaga Alliance) in early 2010. They have taken the lead in LED standardization and set up technical barriers through their core intellectual property technology to control the LED lighting industry. The key link, and through the combination of threats and litigation, to collect high patent license fees from Chinese companies.
The formation of a more representative alliance group believes that although foreign companies monopolize more LED industry upstream epitaxial wafers, midstream chip core technology, but Guangdong enterprises also have their own strengths, the downstream packaging and application links have a large number of patents.
In order to give full play to their own advantages, we will unite with foreign giants to promote the healthy development of the LED industry. In recent years, Guangdong has proposed and implemented LED lighting standard optical component plans, integrating advanced technologies and patents in the middle and lower reaches of the LED industry, and some key enterprises The Optical Component Application Alliance developed R&D serialized LED lighting standard optical component products, formulated product coding principles, mastered some core patent technologies and optical component inspection technologies with independent intellectual property rights, and successfully released a series of technical norms and local standards. Due to the establishment of the Optical Component Application Alliance and the achievement of certain results, the bargaining chip with foreign giants has increased, and the one-sided situation at the patent application negotiation table has begun to turn around. However, there are currently two problems: First, the enterprises participating in the alliance are all Guangdong enterprises, and there are some large-scale key enterprises in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces, but they have not participated, which obviously weakens the power to participate in the negotiations as a whole; It is the first to explore and develop some standards, but it is still a local standard. If it can be further raised to national standards, it will not only benefit the game with foreign giants, but also help the healthy development of domestic enterprises.
To this end, the research team recommended that the LED lighting standard optical component program be an important part of the cooperation between the province and the Ministry, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Guangdong Provincial Government jointly led the plan. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments are requested to support and coordinate the participation of relevant domestic large enterprises in the alliance, to form a more powerful and representative alliance on the basis of the original, to represent the Chinese LED industry collectively to deal with foreign competitors' patent barrier negotiations and disputes, and strive for greater international discourse. right. At the same time, support the established and relatively mature Guangdong local standards to rise to national standards, and enhance China's position and influence in the LED field.